7. Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Messiah, let him reconsider that just as he belongs to Messiah, so also do we.
8. For even if I boast a little more about our authority—which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down—I will not be put to shame.
9. Not that I would try to terrify you by my letters—
10. for they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his presence in person is weak and his speech of no account.”